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19 June 2004

One-way ticket on Mars

In what could be a journey of no return, the Mars rover Opportunity plunged over the rim of Endurance crater, a bowl the size of a football stadium, to study exposed bedrock. The crater walls may be too steep and dusty for it to climb, so NASAhas devised a route back up that will try to keep the rover on rock rather than loose soil.

CJD in Italy

A second case of vCJD, the human form of mad cow disease, is suspected in Italy. Brain scans of a 30-year-old woman admitted to a Palermo clinic matched …